Personal Experience: Poker vs Affiliate Marketing
Poker is a game I love to play, especially online poker. The reason why is because I can do multiple things online such as play multiple tables or surf the web and talk on IM while playing. I can also play it in the comforts of my own home. Brick and Mortar (real live play) is regarded as “more fun,” but to me, it’s more dull.
Live play is much slower, you get fewer hands and it’s more frustrating when you know you can’t just leave the table for another one that would be better because not that many people play live at a single time. This isn’t the case in online poker, where you can connect with people all over the world. There was a time when online poker was at it’s golden age and everyone seemed to be doing very well in it.
The problem with poker was that regardless of how you got, it’s hard to scale. You only make money for the time you spend playing poker and it can be frustrating when you lose consistently regardless of making the correct play or not. This is a reality for professional poker players and a real turn-off when it comes to doing it for a living. There was a time before that if someone asked me what I wanted to do for a living, it would be playing online poker.
This, in addition to the increasingly difficult restrictions on depositing made playing poker really undesirable.
The reason why you want to do affiliate marketing is because you are able to scale it, you are able to make money without having to be there to make money. All you need to do is create the system, monitor and tweak it.
Both Poker and Affiliate Marketing give you the ability to make more money as you get better and better at it.